Commerce and Transportation of Colonial Pennsylvania – The rivers were important as early arteries of commerce and were soon supplemented by roads in the southeastern section. By 1776, stagecoach lines reached from Philadelphia into the southcentral region. Trade with the Indians for furs was important in the colonial period. Later, the transport and sale of farm products to Philadelphia and Baltimore, by water and road, formed an important business. Philadelphia became one of the most important centers in the colonies for the conduct of foreign trade and the commercial metropolis of an expanding hinterland.
WHAT PENNSYLVANIA CITY BECAME ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT CENTERS FOR FOREIGN TRADE AND A COMMERCIAL METROPOLIS FOR EXPANSION IN THE COLONIES ??????
PHILADELPHIA = N 40 49.223 W 078 53.698
HARRISBURG = N 40 48.648 W 078 53.667
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